CDSAGENDA V.5 CONFERENCE ON "IRREVERSIBLE QUANTUM DYNAMICS" co-sponsors: University of Trieste, Italy and Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Trieste, Italy

CONFERENCE ON "IRREVERSIBLE QUANTUM DYNAMICS" co-sponsors: University of Trieste, Italy and Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Trieste, Italy

Start Time:

29 July 2002 at 08:30

Ends On:

2 August 2002

Location:

ICTP

Venue:

M (LH)

Organizer(s):

F. Benatti, R. Floreanini and S. Wikremashekara

Material:

no notes available

Monday 29 July 2002

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

29 July 2002

08:30
09:20

Registration

50'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

09:20
09:30

Opening: Welcome Address

10'

09:30
10:15

Irreversibility: Its origin and its consequences

45'

G.L. SEWELL
Queen Mary & Westfield College, London

10:15
10:45

Selected aspects of markovian and non-markovian master equations

30'

K. LENDI
University of Zurich

10:45
11:15

Coffee break

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

11:15
11:45

Aspects of non-equilibrium quantum statistics mechanics

30'

A. ROYER
Ecole Polytecnique, Dept. de Genie Physique, Montreal

11:45
12:15

Resonances and time evolution in open quantum systems

30'

A.M. KOSSAKOWSKI
Nicholas Copernicus University, Int. of Physics, Torun

12:15
12:45

Open quantum electrodynamics: decoherence through emission of bremsstralung

30'

F. PETRUCCIONE
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Freiburg im Breisgau

12:45
14:00

Lunch

01h15'

14:00
14:30

Non-critical strings as non-equilibrium irreversible systems

30'

N. MAVROMATOS
King's College London

14:30
15:00

Quantum Zeno subspaces and decoherence

30'

S. PASCAZIO
Univ. Bari/INFN, Dipt. Fisica, Bari

15:00
15:20

Quantum mechanics and irreversible time flow

20'

M. LOKAJICEK
Institute of Physics, AVCR, Prague

15:20
15:40

Irreversible quantum Baker map on the Torus

20'

A. LOZINSKI
Jagiellonian Univ, Inst. of Physics, Krakow

15:40
16:10

Coffee break

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

16:10
16:30

Physical examples of translation-covariant markovian master equations

20'

B. VACCHINI
Univ.Milano/INFN, Dipt. di Fisica, Milano

16:30
16:50

Unpredictability of the quantum phase in classically chaotic systems: a cause of irreversibility as measured by the Loschmidt Echo

20'

H.M. PASTAWSKI
Univ. Nacional de Cordoba

16:50
17:10

Complete positivity and factorized dynamics

20'

R. ROMANO
Univ. di Trieste, Dipt. Fisica Teorica, Trieste

Tuesday 30 July 2002

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

30 July 2002

09:15
10:00

Controlled quantum open systems

45'

R. ALICKI
Univ. of Gdansk, Inst. Theoretical Physics & Astrophysics, Gdansk

10:00
10:30

Quantum computers and decoherence: exorcising the demon from the machine

30'

D.A. LIDAR
Univ. of Toronto, Dept. of Chemistry, Toronto

10:30
11:00

Coffee break

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

11:00
11:30

Strong friction limit in quantum mechanics

30'

J. ANKERHOLD
Fakultaet Physik, Univ. Freiburg

11:30
12:00

Spontaneous emission in non-canonical framework

30'

M. CZACHOR
Technical Univ. of Gdansk, Dept. of Physics, Gdansk

12:00
12:30

Dynamical entropy for stochastic systems

30'

M. FANNES
Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Inst. voor Theoretische Fysica, Leuven

12:30
14:00

Lunch

01h30'

14:00
14:30

Dissipative quantum tunneling of charge: current and statistical fluctuations

30'

U. WEISS
Univ. Stuttgart, Inst. Theoretische Physik II, Stuttgart

14:30
15:00

On Koopman's and Banach-Lamperti theorems in classical and quantum dynamics

30'

A.W. MAJEWSKI
Univ. Gdansk, Inst.Theoretical Physics, Gdansk

15:00
15:20

Classical dynamics emerging in infinite quantum systems

20'

P. LUGIEWICZ
Inst. Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Wroclaw

15:20
15:40

A new numerical method for studying the dynamics of open quantum systems

20'

Yu. Yu. LOBANOV
Lab. of Information Technologies, JINR, Moscow

15:40
16:10

Coffee break

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

16:10
16:30

Uncertainty relations in the Lindblad theory of open quantum systems

20'

A. ISAR
Dept.Theoretical Physics, Inst. of Physics & Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest

16:30
16:50

Role of complete positivity in reduced dynamics

20'

M. PIANI
Univ. di Trieste, Dipt. Fisica Teorica, Trieste

19:00
19:00

Reception - Main Building Terrace / Cafeteria

Room: Main Building Terrace

Wednesday 31 July 2002

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

31 July 2002

09:15
10:00

Irreversibility and foundation of quantum mechanics

45'

G.C. GHIRARDI
Univ. of Trieste and ICTP, Trieste

10:00
10:30

The quantum jump approach and quantum trajectories

30'

G. HEGERFELDT
Georg-August Univ. Goettingen, Inst. Theoretische Physik, Goettingen

10:30
11:00

Coffee break

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

11:00
11:30

Facts and propensities in quantum theory and their relation to space, time and irreversibility

30'

R. HAAG
Germany

11:30
12:00

Relativistic spontaneous localization: a proposal

30'

A. RIMINI
Univ. di Pavia, Dipt. Fisica Nucleare-Teorica, Pavia

12:00
12:30

Non-linear dynamics of quantum systems

30'

H.D. DOEBNER
Tech.Univ. Clausthal, Inst. Theoretische Physik, Clausthal-Zellerfeld

12:30
14:00

Lunch

01h30'

14:00
14:30

Progressive coarse-graining and positivity of the Wigner-function

30'

L. DIOSI
KFKI Res.Inst.for Particle & Nuclear Physics, Budapest

14:30
15:00

Dissipative systems and microscopic selforganization

30'

E.J. BRAENDAS
Uppsala Univ., Dept. of Quantum Chemistry, Uppsala

15:00
15:20

Reality and causality in the quantum theory

20'

D. TOMMASINI
Univ. de Vigo, Dept. Fisica Aplicada, Ourense

15:20
15:40

CPT and effective hamiltonians for neutral kaon and similar complexes

20'

K.A. URBANOWSKI
Univ. Zielona Gora, Inst. of Physics, Zielona Gora

15:40
16:10

Coffee break

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

16:10
16:40

Frequent measurements yield reversible dynamics

30'

P. FACCHI
Univ. di Bari/INFN, Dipt. di Fisica, Bari

16:40
17:00

Self-consistent quantal decay rates for damped systems

20'

C. RUMMEL
Physik-Department der TU Muenchen, Garching

17:00
17:20

Zeno dynamics in quantum statistical mechanics

20'

A.U. SCHMIDT
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Univ., Mathematik, Frankfurt am Main

17:20
17:40

Solving physics problems by means of the Rigged Hilbert space

20'

R. DE LA MADRID MODINO
Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation (ISI), Torino

17:40
18:10

At the origin of quantum irreversibility: The eventum mechanics

30'

V.P. BELAVKIN
the University of Nottingham, School of Mathematical Sciences, Nottingham, UK

Thursday 1 August 2002

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

1 August 2002

09:15
10:00

Decay, resonances and irreversibility in quantum mechanics

45'

I. ANTONIOU
Int. Solvay Inst. for Physics & Chemistry, Brussels and Aristoteles Univ. of Thessaloniki, Mathemati

10:00
10:30

Five time arrows with possible linkages

30'

Y. NE'EMAN
Tel-Aviv Univ, Inst. of Advanced Studies, Tel-Aviv

10:30
11:00

Coffee break

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

11:00
11:30

Approaches to describe resonances and their relations

30'

M. GADELLA
Univ. de Valladolid, Dept. Fisica Teorica, Valladolid

11:30
12:00

Resonances and virtual poles in scattering theory

30'

H.H. BAUMGAERTEL
Univ. of Potsdam, Mathematical Inst., Potsdam

12:00
12:30

Axioms of quantum physics and some of their consequences

30'

A. BOHM
The Univ. of Texas Austin, Physics Dept., Austin, Texas

12:30
14:00

Lunch

01h30'

14:00
14:30

Non-exponential quantum decay and resonant states

30'

G. GARCIA-CALDERON
Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico City

14:30
15:00

Oscillating decay in unstable systems

30'

E. KARPOV
Int. Solvay Inst. for Physics & Chemistry, Brussels

15:00
15:20

The transformation theory of Dirac in Rigged Hilbert spaces

20'

F. M. GOMEZ CUBILLO
Univ. de Valladolid, Analisis Matematico, Valladolid

15:20
15:40

Exact representations of the finite fourier transform and improved resolutions beyond the uncertainty relation

20'

T. LEVITINA
Computing Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

15:40
16:10

Coffee break

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

16:10
16:40

The cosmological origin of time asymmetry

30'

M.A. CASTAGNINO
Inst. de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio (IAFE) Conicet, Buenos Aires

16:40
17:00

A tale of two arrows

20'

R.C. BISHOP
Abteilung fuer Theorie und Datenanalyse, Inst. fuer Grenzgebiete der Psychologie, Freiburg

17:00
17:30

Irreversibility in the framework of hermitian and non-hermitian treatments of resonance states

30'

C.A. NICOLAIDES
National Hellenic Res. Foundation, Theoretical & Physical Chemistry Inst., Athens

Friday 2 August 2002

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

2 August 2002

09:15
10:00

Time asymmetric quantum mechanics and resonances

45'

P. KIELANOWSKI
CINVESTAV del IPN, Dept. Fisica, Mexico City

10:00
10:30

Relativistic resonance scattering

30'

N. HARSHMAN
Rice Univ., Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Texas, Houston

10:30
10:45

Coffee break

15'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

11:00
11:30

The spin of unstable states

30'

W. BLUM
CERN, Div. E.P., Geneva

11:30
12:00

Probability collectives for unstable particles

30'

H. SALLER
Max-Planck-Institute fuer Physik, Munich

12:00
12:30

Bound states and resonances in mesoscopic systems

30'

L.S. FERREIRA
CFIF/IST , Lisbon

12:30
14:00

Lunch

01h30'

14:00
14:30

Degeneracy of resonances: Gamow-Jordan eigenfunctions and Jordan blocks associated to a double pole of the S-matrix

30'

A. MONDRAGON
Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico

14:30
14:50

Degeneracy of resonances in finit barrier wells

20'

E. HERNANDEZ-SALDANA
Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico

14:50
15:20

Coffee break

30'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

15:20
15:40

The effect of resonances on CP asymmetries in charged B-meson decays

20'

M. MITHAIWALA
The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Physics, Texas, Austin

16:00
16:30

Finding resonances

30'

E. MAGLIONE
Univ. di Padova, Dipt. di Fisica "G. Galileo", Padova

16:30
16:45

Closing Remarks

15'